Kaiser Permanente Ohio has awarded over $375,000 to 20 organizations serving communities in our nine county region. The recipients are The Battered Women’s Shelter; Beech Brook; Care Alliance Health Center; Cleveland Foodbank; Cleveland Museum of Natural History; Cleveland Rape Crisis Shelter; Cleveland State University’s Choosing Health and Medical Professions Program; Diabetes Association of Greater Cleveland; […]
Cleveland, OH — Kaiser Permanente has awarded over $275,000 to 15 organizations serving communities in our nine county region in 2010. The recipients are Prevent Blindness Ohio; The Summa Foundation; United Cerebral Palsy of Greater Cleveland; Hospice of the Western Reserve; The Legal Aid Society of Cleveland; Case Western Reserve University; Cuyahoga Valley National Park […]
Small practices play a critical role in healthcare delivery, but they cannot continue to absorb ever-increasing administrative demands without consequences.
OAKLAND, Calif. — Secure patient-physician e-mail messaging improves the effectiveness of care for patients with diabetes and hypertension, according to new research by Kaiser Permanente. The study, published in the July issue of Health Affairs, shows that health information technology improves quality of care scores. The study observed 35,423 patients with diabetes, hypertension, or both, […]
Organization’s Commitment to Diversity, Innovation and Advocacy Acknowledged OAKLAND, Calif. — Kaiser Permanente, one of the country’s largest not-for-profit health plans, has been recognized as a “Best Place to Work” by three publications. In the first half of 2010, the organization was ranked No. 1 by Diversity MBA Magazine for diverse managers, and No. 2 […]
OAKLAND, Calif. — Kaiser Permanente is the first health and hospital system to earn a perfect 100 percent rating on the Healthcare Equality Index. The HEI is an annual survey administered by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation and Gay and Lesbian Medical Association. Updates that took effect June 7 in Kaiser Permanente’s 36 hospitals make […]
For the fourth straight year, Kaiser Permanente volunteers returned to the Gulf Coast to work in partnership with service organizations dedicated to rebuilding communities devastated in 2005 by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Sixty volunteers participated in the 2010 Gulf Coast Rebuilding Project in partnership with HandsOn Mississippi and HandsOn New Orleans, nonprofit organizations that facilitate […]
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Purchasing Initiative to Drive Sustainability and Workplace Safety, Designed to Improve the Public’s Health OAKLAND, Calif. — Kaiser Permanente, committed to improving the health of its patients, workforce and communities, announced today that it will require suppliers to provide environmental data for $1 billion worth of medical equipment and products used in its hospitals, medical […]
First Quarter Funding Includes Focus on Expanding Access to Healthy Food, Activities, Health Care and Education OAKLAND, Calif. — Kaiser Permanente, one of America’s leading health care providers and nonprofit health plans, announced today it approved more than 250 grants and donations nationwide totaling approximately $7 million in the first quarter of 2010. The grants […]
Kaiser Permanente’s tradition of fostering diversity, inclusion, innovation and advocacy has again been recognized by Diversity MBA Magazine. For the second year in a row, the health care organization was ranked No. 1 in the publication’s fifth annual “50 Out Front for Diversity Leadership: Best Places for Diverse Managers to Work.” “Kaiser Permanente’s ranking in […]
In order to accommodate our members, the Kaiser Permanente Lakewood office is relocating to 20575 Center Ridge Road, Rocky River, Ohio 44116, which is conveniently located approximately five miles away from the current location, and is central to the Lakewood-Rocky River-Bay Village-Fairview Park area. The KPO Rocky River Medial Offices will be open for patients […]
By reducing administrative burden and redesigning workflows around human needs, it creates space for what matters most: connection between clinicians and patients.
Today, Kaiser Permanente announced its award of a $500,000 grant to the Cleveland Metropolitan School District’s Students of Promise program. Formerly Governor Strickland’s Closing the Achievement Gap program, the Students of Promise program is dedicated to providing guidance and available resources to 9th grade male students, helping them develop expectations of self and raise their […]
We are very pleased that justice has been achieved for our members and the physicians, pharmacists and staff who care for them. Kaiser Permanente, along with the rest of the medical world, relied on the published science about Neurontin’s effectiveness, not knowing it had been wrongfully manipulated. As a result, we ultimately spent more than […]
Kaiser Permanente has a long history of supporting affordable access to high-quality health care. From our earliest days providing health care to workers in the Kaiser shipyards of World War II to our current programs that provide subsidized coverage to those in economic distress, care-and-coverage-for-all has been central to our mission. Assuming the reconciliation bill […]